Strictly Come Dancing star Karen Hauer has shared rare snaps with her boyfriend as she celebrated their anniversary.
The professional dancer, 43, has found love again after her ‘toxic’ marriage to Jordan Wyn-Jones – who she wed in 2022 after they met online, but divorced just 16 months later.
Taking to Instagram on Saturday, Karen celebrated her second anniversary with her ex-rugby player boyfriend Simon Davidson, 35.
Sharing an array of loved-up snaps with Simon, Karen wrote: ‘2 years…..You’ve got all my love ♥️ Happy anniversary.’
Among the snaps were pictures of Karen and Simon cosying up together as they attended a concert.
Meanwhile in another sweet display Simon was seen picking up Karen as the pair went to share a kiss.
Strictly Come Dancing star Karen Hauer shared rare snaps with her boyfriend on Instagram on Saturday as she celebrated their anniversary
In a sweet display in one of the snaps, Simon was seen picking up Karen as the pair went to share a kiss
Elsewhere the couple shared some pictures from lavish holidays together and an array of funny selfies.
It comes after Karen broke down in tears as she spoke about the breakdown of her toxic third marriage to Jordan for the first time.
Speaking in a moving interview on Paul C. Brunson’s We Need To Talk podcast, Karen accused her ex of leaving her ’emotionally battered’, and admitted she was lying to loved ones about her struggles.
She said: ‘I was just in panic mode, panic mode, love should not be panic. It’s almost like he made up things to scare me so that I wouldn’t go anywhere.
‘But it’s OK and I get on with it, I get on with it and smile because I don’t want to cause trouble, I don’t want to shake things up because that puts you in a bad mood which then makes my day really awful, and that’s the state I lived in…
‘I was not only lying to my family and friends and they were seeing it, but I was lying to him as well, because that was the only way I could get through the day, that would keep the peace.’
Breaking down in tears, Karen added that she begun to suffer hair loss caused by autoimmune disease alopecia, which she believes was her nervous system responding to the stress she was under.
She went onto reveal that on the day she was due to marry Jordan, her brother confronted her and said she needed to leave the relationship.
Among the snaps were pictures of Karen and Simon cosying up together as they attended a concert
Elsewhere the couple shared some pictures from lavish holidays together and an array of funny selfies
Sharing an array of loved-up snaps with Simon, Karen wrote: ‘2 years…..You’ve got all my love ♥️ Happy anniversary;
The pair were also seen by a lake as they enjoyed a day out with their two dogs
When Karen and Jordan tied the knot in Hampshire, they sold their wedding snaps to magazine Hello!, and at the time she described her big day as a ‘fairytale.’
But in her hard-hitting interview with Paul, Karen painted a very different story, revealing: ‘Everyone was trying to stop this from happening and I wish they would have just taken me, grabbed me and put me in a car, and I would have kicked and screamed, but I wouldn’t have gone through more hell.’
Speaking of Jordan, she said: ‘He didn’t hurt me physcally so you couldn’t see it. It was there, digging, digging, digging …
‘Every dig every text, every call, why did I let someone do that to me?’
Karen added that her friends eventually tried to stage an intervention to try and convince her to end the relationship.
Sharing her most challenging moment in the ordealKaren said: ‘There was a weekend I had to work but Pink was in concert and my two best friends, we got tickets and I was able to get away as an excuse as well that I was working down in London so I came down.
‘I cried for the first 35 minutes of the show. The freedom of being out there with my friends and them holding me up. And going, “You have to do this”.
‘And then obviously the phone call from him (Jordan), “Why did you take your luggage?” It’s almost that he knew what was coming.
The dancer married Jordan in 2022 after they met online, but they divorced just 16 months later
‘I remember that moment, “I have to, I have to do it because if not something is going to happen to me”.’
Karen said things turned nasty between herself and Jordan following their split, adding: ‘He started losing control of me and it was game-on from him.
‘He pulled every shot, every string, did everything he needed to do to try and get my attention and try to get me away from what I was doing to go and see him.’
The star admitted that Jordan begged her to take him back insisting he ‘would change,’ but he still made their divorce ‘difficult.’
Originally from Brighton, Jordan was living in Sydney when he began following Karen on Instagram.
She followed him back and they began to exchange messages before regularly speaking on FaceTime.
The businessman eventually relocated to the UK, with the couple marrying in 2022, but the marriage soon crumbled and the couple announced their separation just 16-months later.
